diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c
index d192936..14545a8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/loopback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /*
  * INET		An implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite for the LINUX
  *		operating system.  INET is implemented using the  BSD Socket
@@ -22,11 +23,6 @@
  *                                      interface.
  *		Alexey Kuznetsov:	Potential hang under some extreme
  *					cases removed.
- *
- *		This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- *		modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- *		as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
- *		2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  */
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
@@ -59,11 +55,12 @@
 #include <net/net_namespace.h>
 #include <linux/u64_stats_sync.h>
 
-struct pcpu_lstats {
-	u64			packets;
-	u64			bytes;
-	struct u64_stats_sync	syncp;
-};
+/* blackhole_netdev - a device used for dsts that are marked expired!
+ * This is global device (instead of per-net-ns) since it's not needed
+ * to be per-ns and gets initialized at boot time.
+ */
+struct net_device *blackhole_netdev;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(blackhole_netdev);
 
 /* The higher levels take care of making this non-reentrant (it's
  * called with bh's disabled).
@@ -134,21 +131,9 @@
 	return 1;
 }
 
-static int loopback_get_ts_info(struct net_device *netdev,
-				struct ethtool_ts_info *ts_info)
-{
-	ts_info->so_timestamping = SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE |
-				   SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE |
-				   SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE;
-
-	ts_info->phc_index = -1;
-
-	return 0;
-};
-
 static const struct ethtool_ops loopback_ethtool_ops = {
 	.get_link		= always_on,
-	.get_ts_info		= loopback_get_ts_info,
+	.get_ts_info		= ethtool_op_get_ts_info,
 };
 
 static int loopback_dev_init(struct net_device *dev)
@@ -172,12 +157,14 @@
 	.ndo_set_mac_address = eth_mac_addr,
 };
 
-/* The loopback device is special. There is only one instance
- * per network namespace.
- */
-static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev)
+static void gen_lo_setup(struct net_device *dev,
+			 unsigned int mtu,
+			 const struct ethtool_ops *eth_ops,
+			 const struct header_ops *hdr_ops,
+			 const struct net_device_ops *dev_ops,
+			 void (*dev_destructor)(struct net_device *dev))
 {
-	dev->mtu		= 64 * 1024;
+	dev->mtu		= mtu;
 	dev->hard_header_len	= ETH_HLEN;	/* 14	*/
 	dev->min_header_len	= ETH_HLEN;	/* 14	*/
 	dev->addr_len		= ETH_ALEN;	/* 6	*/
@@ -196,11 +183,20 @@
 		| NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL
 		| NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED
 		| NETIF_F_LOOPBACK;
-	dev->ethtool_ops	= &loopback_ethtool_ops;
-	dev->header_ops		= &eth_header_ops;
-	dev->netdev_ops		= &loopback_ops;
+	dev->ethtool_ops	= eth_ops;
+	dev->header_ops		= hdr_ops;
+	dev->netdev_ops		= dev_ops;
 	dev->needs_free_netdev	= true;
-	dev->priv_destructor	= loopback_dev_free;
+	dev->priv_destructor	= dev_destructor;
+}
+
+/* The loopback device is special. There is only one instance
+ * per network namespace.
+ */
+static void loopback_setup(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	gen_lo_setup(dev, (64 * 1024), &loopback_ethtool_ops, &eth_header_ops,
+		     &loopback_ops, loopback_dev_free);
 }
 
 /* Setup and register the loopback device. */
@@ -235,3 +231,45 @@
 struct pernet_operations __net_initdata loopback_net_ops = {
 	.init = loopback_net_init,
 };
+
+/* blackhole netdevice */
+static netdev_tx_t blackhole_netdev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
+					 struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	kfree_skb(skb);
+	net_warn_ratelimited("%s(): Dropping skb.\n", __func__);
+	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+}
+
+static const struct net_device_ops blackhole_netdev_ops = {
+	.ndo_start_xmit = blackhole_netdev_xmit,
+};
+
+/* This is a dst-dummy device used specifically for invalidated
+ * DSTs and unlike loopback, this is not per-ns.
+ */
+static void blackhole_netdev_setup(struct net_device *dev)
+{
+	gen_lo_setup(dev, ETH_MIN_MTU, NULL, NULL, &blackhole_netdev_ops, NULL);
+}
+
+/* Setup and register the blackhole_netdev. */
+static int __init blackhole_netdev_init(void)
+{
+	blackhole_netdev = alloc_netdev(0, "blackhole_dev", NET_NAME_UNKNOWN,
+					blackhole_netdev_setup);
+	if (!blackhole_netdev)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	rtnl_lock();
+	dev_init_scheduler(blackhole_netdev);
+	dev_activate(blackhole_netdev);
+	rtnl_unlock();
+
+	blackhole_netdev->flags |= IFF_UP | IFF_RUNNING;
+	dev_net_set(blackhole_netdev, &init_net);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+device_initcall(blackhole_netdev_init);